Cory Maxson

Cory Maxson was a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1950s. The son of former Negro Leagues baseball player Troy Maxson, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps after being kicked out of his house for wanting to play football instead of getting a real job, and he was estranged from his father.

Biography
Cory Maxson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Troy Maxson and Rose Lee Maxson. He grew up in a working-class African-American family, and he worked as a cashier at an A&P supermarket while going to high school and getting good grades. In 1957, he was in talks with North Carolina fooball coach Zellman about getting a college football scholarship, but his father told Zellman that his son was no longer interested in football, as Troy wanted Cory to get a "real" job instead of being too idealistic like Cory's half-brother Lyons. Cory and Troy got into an argument about this, leading to Cory being kicked out of his house, and he went on to join the US Marine Corps. In 1963, he reluctantly attended his father's funeral after his mother convinced him to do so.